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Get Ready To See A Whole Lot Of Dakota Fanning In 2012

Cherubic child star Dakota Fanning is all grown up and, it seems, getting very serious about this whole acting thing. The teen star has just booked not one, not two, but three films. It looks like we finally have someone to take over Natalie Portman’s role of starring in every other movie once she goes on maternity leave. Phew!

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Trailer Premiere: ’80s Rock Icon Battles Demons in Bob and the Monster

“It was one of the most magical times ever,” recalls Anthony Kiedis of the 1980s Los Angeles punk scene that gave birth to bands like his Red Hot Chili Peppers amidst a haze of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. But for indie rock icon Bob Forrest, lead singer of the post-punk band Thelonious Monster, the freely available substances that liberated the scene also sent him into a spiraling drug dependency that ruined his career. After years of battling his demons, Forrest became a renowned drug counselor helping others, and his struggle formed the basis of the documentary Bob and the Monster .

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Kat Dennings to Play One of Two Broke Girls for CBS

Here at Movieline HQ, we’re unabashed Kat Dennings supporters — and speaking for myself, that means even the atrocious-looking Thor will probably get my disposable income — so the news that the Nick and Norah star is potentially headed to weekly television glory is a great way to close out the week. Dennings has been cast in the Michael Patrick King/Whitney Cummings-produced CBS pilot Two Broke Girls as Max, the broke-r of the two lead females who work at a Brooklyn diner while trying to raise cash for their big business venture. Sounds like How to Make It In America but awesome. [ Deadline ]

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The Return of the Moonwalker: The German Michael Jackson Zombie Clown Movie You’ve Been Waiting For

Do you ever have that recurring nightmare where midgets and German circus folk take commands from talking toilets and wear Hitler masks and cast spells to bring Michael Jackson back from the dead in zombie form? If you didn’t before, you will now after watching this trailer for the insane-sounding German flick The Return of the Moonwalker . Happy holiday weekend!

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Tyra Banks Apes ANTM Contestants; is Hilarious

Late Night Highlights: Andy Richter Finally Destroys Watson the Supercomputer

After a widely reported win on Jeopardy , Watson the Supercomputer stopped by Conan one last time to mock Andy Richter about bedding his wife — only it did not end well for the game show victor. Elsewhere, Stephen Colbert vacuumed with a naked model on his back, Jason Sudeikis talked Justin Bieber, Jenna Fischer explained her college arrest and Craig Ferguson opened his show with a rabbit and a robot because he can.

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Win a Free MacBook Air! Play Statuesque!

Oscar season is coming down to the wire, folks, and for once, all of America has something at stake: A free MacBook Air. Or a free iPod. Or other cherished prizes offered in Movieline’s Statuesque Oscar Picks sweepstakes. Have you signed up yet? Grab your friends and let me show you how it’s done.

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REVIEW: Let’s Just Shoot I Am Number Four Back Into Space, OK?

Anyone who has ever been a child or played with one is familiar with the narrative universe of I Am Number Four , a teen alien/superhero/savior/vampire mash-up that’s all guts and no glory. In it, things happen in an order that’s too erratic to be called a sequence and yet too processed to amount to much of a story. Props, plot points, and ass-saving contingencies erupt only on the point of crisis, as they do in child’s play: Oh you’re an alien from a far-off planet? Well I am a different alien sent to kill you ! Oh you suddenly have superpowers to deflect my intergalactic weapons? Well guess what–I have a monster Fire-proof shield!

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Report: Mila Kunis to Join James Franco in Sam Raimi’s Oz

Everyone’s favorite Oscar-snubbee Mila Kunis is reportedly set to join Sam Raimi’s Oz, the Great and Powerful , the lonnnnng-gestating Wizard of Oz prequel with James Franco attached as the title character. Kunis would play Evanorah, the young witch-in-training who develops into the Wicked Witch of the East. Of course. Shooting is rumored to begin in July, but I think we all know Raimi’s protracted dawdling really portends an awesome Oz / Sex and the City 3 Memorial Day showdown in 2016. Or something. [ Vulture ]

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VIDEO: So That’s Why Hereafter Was Nominated for an Oscar

Perhaps in response to all those people left stymied by Hereafter ‘s Oscar nomination for visual effects (especially when Tron: Legacy got shut out of the category, poor thing), Warner Bros. have released a shot-by-shot reel showing how VFX supervisor Michael Owens and Scanline VFX put together that nine-minute opening tsunami sequence. And when you see how the live-action parts came together combining CG, green screen, water tanks, and on-location photography — well, “Oscar-nominated Hereafter ” doesn’t sound so silly anymore.

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